ICEL 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: First Grammatical Treatise, Old Norse, Germanic Calendar
13 Apr 2018
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The piece begins with a journey from a physical displacement, accompanied by good feelings, but also invites a looking back home. The author begins a kind fragmentary journey through space and time, consistently reflecting back on icelandic culture and history. The author highlights the icelandic writer benedikt grondal early in the piece, talks about how he was educated early in both icelandic and classical culture. Crossing boundaries/borders can result in a profound exchange/gaining of knowledge, despite the risks involved, or inviting the vulnerability of the unfamiliar: both physical and metaphorical. Reflection of icelandic history: icelandic settlement and expansion, closed/conservative perspectives on icelandic culture. Becoming too comfortable with the familiar also invites risk (e. g. stagnation, stasis, etc. ) Early settlement of iceland (870-930), purportedly farmers fleeing the tyranny of the. Establishment of the icelandic parliament (althing) in 930, and the formulation of laws (orally transmitted through the position of the lawspeakers)
